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over the British Section per mile might be fixed at a some-

-what higher rate than for the Canton Section but the

competition of water-transport will limit this increase.

11.

The next matter for discussion

is how in matters of detail to adjust the actual running

of trains and interchangeability of Rolling Stock, use of

Stations and Workshops, adjustment of Accounts, and other

matters so as to carry out the principle of a "single

continuous line", with mutual interests and an adequate

check. Mr. Eves proposes that Engines shall be changed at

the frontier, but that Wagons and Coaches shall run

through. Some recognition of the use of the Terminal

Station at Kowloon is reasonable, and the question of Work-

-shops is one which offers many points for discussion.

12.

Finally there is the question of

Duties and the collection of Likin. With this matter Sir

John Jordan is in negotiation already with the Central

Government as regards the Shanghai-Nanking Line. There are

also subsidiary points which I have raised in my Despatch

to the Minister such as whether transit certificates can be

issued from Kowloon as from a Treaty Port &c.

13.

There are of course a very great

number of what may be regarded as minor points, and which

need